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Show News in Brief Dr. A. L. Stark, extension horticulturist hor-ticulturist at the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college says that the best time to control the cherry or pear s.'i'.'g is right after harvest. This pest is becoming gravely serious in C?t3h, toe says, and urges all far.n.-ers far.n.-ers to take immediate steps for its erradieation. j The injury imay be noticed in thej Jei.ves. The green surface of the leaf is eaten away leaving only a lacy structure. To control it, Dr. Stark advices a mixture of 2 pounds of lead arsenate arsen-ate to 10D gallons of water be sprayed spray-ed cn the tree, covering it completly. Another 'mixture is 34 pint of nicotine nic-otine sulphate to 100 gallons cf Iwater with 4 pounds of icoTj-non soap added. Or road dust and fine ashes makes a good control .measure. An increase of 20 percent in the spring pig crop and the expectation expecta-tion that the number of sows to farrow in the fall seascn will be 16 percent above last year leads the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to the expectation that the 1939 pig crop iTvill be the largest since 1923. The increase in ihog production in prospect for this year over 1938 is larger than in any year cn record, re-cord, according to the bureau. The total number of sows to farrow this year is aibout 22 percent larger than in 1938. Indications are there "sill be a total pig crop about 16 per cent larger than the ten-year (1928-39) average and about 4 percent per-cent above the five-year (1929-33) average. The number of pigs saved in the spring season is estimated at 52, 314,000 head, cr 8,864,000 more than were saved in tihe spring season of 1938. The sum of estimated spring and indicated fall litters for 1939 gives a. total of 13,610,000 for the year. Assm.rdng the average nrir.)ber of pigs per litter this fall . q to equal the ten-year average, the coi.r.ibined spring and fall pig crops would total 83,000,030 head, or about 12,000,000 more than last year. |